Archiving Mail Files

[posted 2000/04/28]

A week or two ago, we were actually losing user mail files on occasion
due to our troubles. That is now mostly a thing of the past, but we still
get an occasional report of a lost mail file. This could easily be due
to user error, not to our recent mail server troubles, but you never know.
In response, we have set up the following new alarm for archiving mail files:

Note the use of the =archive_mail_file() macro created earlier for
ProcNumChk.

=objdir/ArchiveMailFile.obj is a file defined in objects.cfg:

#if moscow
ArchiveMailFile
zeppo
#endif // moscow

Currently we have just a single user registered. Hopefully this list will
not grow over time. Ideally, we can fix all of our mail problems and
retire this list, also the ArchiveMailFile script. (Actually, it would be
better to leave them in the PIKT configuration files, but commented out, for
future use.)

Note how we have set up a reminder, sent every Monday, to review the list
and the whole mail file backup situation.